In lieu of content, please find below a whack of links that, at one point or another, I found more or less interesting...
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Have you just arrived in New France? Maybe you'd like to build a house of stone? Then check out the Maison Saint-Gabriel online tour, The Mark of Time, to give yourself some idea of how it's done.
Your house is now complete, and you want to throw an informal little housewarming dinner, just a few guests. Perhaps you're thinking of having a glass of wine with the Borgias? Impress them with your horticultural knowledge! Courtesy of Killer Plants: Plants That Changed History.
So now your garden is well~stocked; but your groundskeeper is nowhere to be found. How odd. Oh well. Must devise some sort of structure to shade your guests from the sun, something DIY... ah! You can build your very own Stonehenge. Wally Wallington will show you how.*
Clearly, keeping good staff is becoming more difficult nowadays, so you may wish to consult a list of butler schools worldwide to avail yourself of the perfect accessory to your little black dress. Sometime a proper old~fashioned butler is simply indispensable...
Don't know your upstairs from your dowstairs? Swot up with a review of Manor House from PBS; and refine your manners with a lesson in etiquette from Ms. Emily Post.
And when it's time for a quick getaway, do so in retro style with Scootart.
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* Wally's work was profiled by The Daily Planet {link via EXN/Discovery Channel}. Two names in the running for the completed stone circle are "WallyHenge" and "Stonehenge Reloaded". :)
Posted by edgar at October 22, 2003 11:06 AM